Peter Campbell was a talented poet who wrote and performed throughout his life. His work ranged in tone from the personal and reflective to humorous and rousing like ‘The Mental Marching Band’, which became a survivor anthem.
Alongside Hilary Porter, Joe Bidder and Frank Bangay, he was a founding member of Survivors’ Poetry, a group established in the early 1990s to support the creativity and expression of survivors of the mental health system.
Below is The Way It Feels, Peter Campbell’s self-published collection of poetry, first published in 1986.
Peter Campbell’s poetry was generously donated to the PCLP by Louise Pembroke and can be viewed in his archives held at the Bishopsgate Institute in London.